ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,759, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Gigaphoton Inc. (Tochigi, Japan).

"Laser device and electronic device manufacturing method" was invented by Seiji Nogiwa (Oyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser device includes a semiconductor laser outputting continuous light, a first amplifier amplifying the continuous light and converting the continuous light to pulse light in synchronization with a light emission trigger signal received from an external apparatus, an optical phase modulator arranged on an optical path of the continuous light between the semiconductor laser and the first amplifier, a modulation signal generator ou...